QUESTION OF SWEEPS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 214, 19 August 1931, Page 7

QUESTION OF SWEEPS

- "*" BROOMS, CONSULTATIONS, AND TATTERSALL'S TICKETS POLICE COURT CHARGE At the Dunedin Police Court attention was directed to a "sweep" known ,-i as "Broom's Consultations" and the 1 sale of Tattersall's tickets, when . I Gideon James Scott pleaded not guilty j to receiving money for tickets in con- , J nection with a lottery known as Tat- [ tcrsalVs "sweeps," Hobart, Tasmania, such lottery being a scheme by which . prizes were given by mode of chance. j!Mr. E. J. Anderson appeared for the • i defendant. ,1 Detective-Sergeant Nuttall said that i ] on July 14' he interviewed the defenI dant at the detective office. He questioned defendant with reference to a [ box he. had at the C.P.0., Dunedin, ■ where correspondence, addressed to G. Scott, G. J. Scott, and J. Scott, was; : i received. Witness also questioned him ,'with reference to pamphlets that had (.bear, issued regarding Tattersall's .'tickets and Broom's consultations. Broom's had been, conducting sweeps all over the world, there being a prize of £IOO,OOO, and various other prizes. Defendant made a statement in which ho said he had received an appoint ment as the principal New Zealand agent for Broom's consultations. Between 40 and 50 forms had come to hand, but, the whole matter had gone into liquidation throughout the world and no longer was in existence. A number of pamphlets had been | printed for the defendant which made 'reference to the purchase of Tatter'sail's tickets and to Broom's , "sweeps." Defendant, said he had actually sold six Tattersall's tickets 'since he came down, from Waipori j early in June. Soon after taking over [the P.O. box Broom's "sweeps" gave lout. In the event of defendant having sold the first ticket, in Broom's he would have received £3,000 from the syndicate. At present he was 34s out of pocket, over the business. Witness said the question of lotteries was discussed, and defendant clearly understood that Tattersall's and Broom's

"sweeps" were lotteries. Mr. Anderson said that defendant sent away the' money tor the tickets just as dozens of citizens did every 'The Detective-Sergeant: I should say hundreds.

The Magistrate (Mr. H. W. Bundle S.M.): Probably thousands. "Probably fens of thousands,' added Mr. Anderson.

I Leslie Falconer Smith, assistantsupervisor at the Post Office, gave evidence as to the box at. the Post Office J held by the defendant and as to cor- > | respondence that had come there for thi! accused. Mr. Anderson submitted legal argu- ' ment in support of his contention that, \ as defendant was charged, no offence was disclosed. The defendant had not ' sent the money away as a money-mak-ing concern. He was merely getting | the tickets for himself and two friends. The magistrate said ho would reserve his decision on the legal points ' raised by Mr. Anderson. | The defendant said he actually got , i six Tattersall's tickets for two friends and himself, and had they been for- '. tun ate enough to win a prize they would have participated equally. The [tickets cost lis each, and witness re- ' milted the money, Witness made 3s lOd in the £ on the exchange, but nothing on the tickets, which eventually were posted from Australia direct to his friends. ! To Chief-Defective Quartermain: He was a clerk employed by the City ! Corporation. On the assumption that j Broom's Consultation was going to continue he had the pamphlets , printed. Broom's was discontinued, I and. he had no further interest in the [matter. Broom's Consultation had (been carried on somewhere in the Pyrenees. ! The magistrate said he would like an opportunity of looking further into the matter, and the case wag adjourned, o- I